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New Petrology Report for KSZ, Botswana
New Petrology Report for KSZ, Botswana.
About this update from Kavango Resources Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n RNS Number : 2822V\n Kavango Resources PLC\n 06 August 2020\n \n \n \n \n PRESS RELEASE\n \n \n \n \n \n 6 August 2020\n \n \n KAVANGO RESOURCES PLC\n \n \n (\"Kavango\" or \"the Company\")\n \n \n \n \n \n New Petrology Report for KSZ, Botswana\n \n \n \n \n \n Kavango Resources plc (LSE:KAV), the exploration company targeting the discovery of world-class mineral deposits in Botswana, is pleased to announce the release of a new report by independent consultant, Dr Martin Prendergast, on the petrology and mineral composition of core samples, taken from the Kalahari Suture Zone (\"KSZ\") during the 2019 drill campaign (the \"Report\").\n \n \n Significantly, Dr Prendergast's Report confirms two further shared characteristics of the geology of the KSZ and that of the Norilsk deposits in Russia. The Norilsk deposits host some of the world's richest mineralised zones of copper-nickel-platinum group metals (\"PGMs\").\n \n \n \n \n \n Highlights\n \n \n v \n The Report confirms:\n \n \n - \n The presence of cumulate rocks\n \n \n - \n Sulphide liquid fractionation\n \n \n v \n Despite the continuing lockdown in Botswana, Kavango has been able to courier core samples from the 2019 KSZ drill campaign to a laboratory in Johannesburg for whole rock analysis and the preparation of polished thin sections. The thin sections and analytical data were then couriered to Dr Prendergast in Scotland for interpretation and reporting. \n \n \n v \n Dr Prendergast's Report and the thin sections will now be sent to Dr David Holwell and his team at the University of Leicester for further interpretation and an update of his KSZ Mineral Systems Review (\"MSR\").\n \n \n \n \n \n Michael Foster, Chief Executive Officer of Kavango Resources, commented:\n \n \n \"The publication by our consultant, Dr Prendergast, of his report is an important step forward for the Company, as it seeks to validate its exploration hypothesis that one or more 'Norilsk style' deposits exist in association with magmatic rocks along the KSZ structure in SW Botswana.\n \n \n There now seems little doubt that there was enough sulphur in the magma to form a metal sulphide liquid phase. Dr Prendergast's report suggests that as much as 50% of the nickel and perhaps all of the copper in the magma may have precipitated as metal sul...